[Verse 1]
There once was a man of grift,
who took our money to build
a wall to lock up the land
he wanted just for himself.
He watered his greens nonstop
and fenced them off like a club
where all of its pillars white
held back the riverine flow.
[Chorus]
The frogs in the pot were lured
with false conceptions of worth,
and in this error they failed
to sense the danger at hand.
They drove misgivings away
while shoving questions aside
to name his highness their king
and hushed those sounding alarms.
[Verse 2]
He spent our fortunes and lost
while betting on high-stakes risks
and when everything he touched
miscarried, the child blew up.
He sold half of the nation
an obvious bill of goods
that seemed too good to be true
but they bought his crap, alas!
[Chorus]
The frogs in the pot were lured
with false conceptions of worth,
and in this error they failed
to sense the danger at hand.
They drove misgivings away
while shoving questions aside
to name his highness their king
and hushed those sounding alarms.
[Verse 3]
He turned them against their own
and had them all at their throats.
to beat and chase out their young
and walk all over their old.
He split them all into groups,
enlisted neighbors to spy,
and tasked the people to track,
their colleagues, loved ones and friends.
[Chorus]
The frogs in the pot were lured
with false conceptions of worth,
and in this error they failed
to sense the danger at hand.
They drove misgivings away
while shoving questions aside
to name his highness their king
and hushed those sounding alarms.
[Verse 4]
He took his subjects to war,
And sent their children to die,
On foreign quests for revenge,
Until his people were spent.
The fields are littered with stones;
Their bones lay under the stars.
The land of the free was sold,
The home of the brave is gone.
[Chorus]
The frogs in the pot were lured
with false conceptions of worth,
and in this error they failed
to sense the danger at hand.
They drove misgivings away
while shoving questions aside
to name his highness their king
and hushed those sounding alarms.
[Outro]
They drove misgivings away
while shoving questions aside
to name his highness their king
and hushed those sounding alarms.
Lyrics, Bill Graham
